Senior Platform Engineer — Data Reliability

Duracell Power Center, a Duracell Authorized Licensee

San Jose (CA)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 200,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

401(k)

PTO

Paid company holidays

Job summary

Duracell Power Center, a Duracell Authorized Licensee, is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer - Data Reliability for an on-site role in San Jose, CA. You will design and maintain data platforms to ensure reliable, scalable energy storage monitoring systems and robust pipelines.

You will work with cross-functional teams to optimize data quality, observability, and incident response, owning both pipelines and runtime to deliver accurate customer-facing data.

Qualifications

5+ years backend engineering with real production ownership
Python async services (FastAPI/SQLAlchemy or equivalent) and PostgreSQL at scale - time-series experience a strong plus
AWS containers and infrastructure-as-code (ECS/Fargate, CloudWatch; CDK or Terraform)
Experience integrating and debugging third-party APIs that misbehave
Fluent, critical use of AI coding tools - generates fast and verifies; runs the test before trusting the claim
Evidence-first habits - asks for the denominator, distrusts green dashboards

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain data platforms for high reliability, scalability, and performance
Develop and optimize software components and robust data pipelines
Manage infrastructure and database environments; monitor system health and data integrity
Troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, and data layers
Collaborate with engineering, product, and operations to align platform capabilities with needs
Own pipelines, runtime, and alerting in a multi-tenant environment

Skills

Programming Skills

Infrastructure design

Databases

Troubleshooting

Observability

Distributed systems

APIs integration

Python

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

ECS/Fargate

CloudWatch

CDK

Terraform

PostgreSQL

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

Job description

Company Description

Duracell Power Center, a Duracell Authorized Licensee, focuses on empowering homeowners to self-power their homes with clean, affordable, and reliable energy. The company designs, refines, and manufactures smart energy storage solutions that benefit both residents and the environment. Its flagship product, the Duracell Power Center, is a highly flexible home battery and solar storage solution from a trusted global power brand. Featuring industry-leading Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries, these systems are modular, easy to install, and compatible with both new and existing home energy setups. Team members collaborate on advanced energy technologies that directly support the transition to sustainable home power.

Role Description

The Senior Platform Engineer - Data Reliability is a full-time, on-site role based in San Jose, CA. This role is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining data platforms that ensure high reliability, scalability, and performance for energy storage and monitoring systems. Day-to-day tasks include developing and optimizing software components, implementing robust data pipelines, managing infrastructure and database environments, and monitoring system health and data integrity. The engineer will troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, and data layers, and implement automation to improve reliability and observability. Collaboration with cross-functional teams in engineering, product, and operations is expected to align platform capabilities with business and customer needs.

Qualifications

Candidates should possess strong Programming and Software Development skills for building and maintaining reliable platform services.

Candidates should possess solid Infrastructure skills for designing, deploying, and operating scalable, cloud or hybrid environments.

Candidates should possess robust Databases skills for modeling, managing, and optimizing data storage and retrieval.

Candidates should possess advanced Troubleshooting skills for diagnosing and resolving issues across software, infrastructure, and data systems.

Experience with data reliability, observability, and monitoring tools (e.g., logging, metrics, tracing) is highly beneficial.

Background in distributed systems, data pipelines, and API-driven architectures is preferred.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Ability to work collaboratively on-site in San Jose, CA and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The role

This hire becomes the second platform engineer on a system that currently has one. The job is to make the data we show customers provably true and the production runtime reliably boring - and to own both.

Areas of ownership

Ingestion truthfulness. Multiple vendor APIs, each with its own auth quirks, rate limits, and freshness semantics. Owns the pipelines, the freshness/coverage metrics, and surfacing \"how current is this, really\" to the product.

Alert lifecycle. Alerts that open, resolve, and mean something - deduplicated correctly in a multi-tenant system.

Scheduled-job runtime. Everything periodic runs as declared infrastructure (EventBridge/ECS via CDK), observed and alarmed.

Deploy discipline. Pinned deploys from reviewed, merged code; migration gates; a meaningful staging environment; CI kept green and required.

Incident response. First responder for pipeline/vendor incidents, with the technical lead as escalation - and makes the alarms themselves trustworthy.